DR. THOMAS FRIEDEN, U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION DIRECTOR: I`ve been hearing loud and clear from health care workers from around the country that they`re worried.

SYLVIA BURWELL, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: I do have confidence in the CDC and Dr. Frieden.

FRIEDEN: I wish we had put teams like this on the ground the day that patient -- the first patient was diagnosed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Crisis management 101...

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Obviously, one case is too many.

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SCHULTZ: Good to have you with us tonight, folks. Thanks for watching. We start with breaking news at this hour on Ebola that`s happening here in the United States as we are waiting for remarks from the President on Ebola just moments ago. We`ll get that tape to you soon. We`ll bring it to you when the President speaks.

But first, a second nurse at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for Ebola. The nurse has been identified by NBC News as Amber Vinson. Vinson provided care to the first Ebola patient Thomas Duncan who later passed away. Vinson will be transferred to Emory University Hospital today to undergo treatment. She reported a fever on Tuesday morning and was put in isolation within 90 minutes.

On Monday Vinson traveled by air from Cleveland, Ohio to Dallas, Texas, the CDC confirmed she took this Frontier Airlines flight 11:43. Vinson showed no signs or symptoms while on the flight, however, because of the close proximity of time between the flight and initial symptoms, the CDC is reaching out to all passengers and crew that we`re on that flight. Anyone who might be at risk will be closely monitored.

CDC Director said today that there was a very low risk that anyone who traveled on that flight. Frontier Airlines` plane was moved to a remote runway at Cleveland Hopkins Airport and decontaminated and is expected to be back in operation later this evening.

Vinson is related to three workers at Kent State University who have been asked to remain off-campus for 21 days. A total of 77 workers treated Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian. The other 75 are being closely monitored.

The CDC said today, monitored workers will no longer be able to travel. So far, two have fallen ill with Ebola and there is a chance others will get sick.

Last night, National Nurses United held a conference call with nurses from the facility Dallas Health Presbyterian Hospital. The nurses from Dallas asked to stay anonymous for fear that they might lose their jobs.

Here`s what they told National Nurses United.

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DEBORAH BURGER, CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT: Mr. Duncan was left for several hours, not in isolation, in an area where other patients were present. Initial nurses who interacted with Mr. Duncan wore generic gowns. They also left exposed the majority of their heads and their scrubs from the knees down.

After they recommended that the nurses wear isolation suits, the nurses raised questions and concerns about the fact that the skin on their neck was exposed. They were told to use medical tape and had to use four to five pieces of medical tape.

Some hospital personnel were coming in and out of the isolation areas in the emergency department without having worn the proper protective equipment.

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SCHULTZ: As we reported on this program, nurses around the country feel like the hospitals are not prepared to handle Ebola.

A survey showed that 85 percent of nurses say their hospital has not provided education on Ebola with the ability to ask questions. 37 percent say their hospital has insufficient protective gear.

These issues must be addressed or more accidents area going to happen.

For more, let me bring in NBC News Correspondent Kelly O`Donnell who is at the White House tonight.

Kelly, there has to be a heightened sense of urgency amongst the White House personnel. What are you hearing tonight?

KELLY O`DONNELL, NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Well at any moment Ed, we expect that the door behind me may open up and the group of rotating reporters known as the White House pool will bring out the tape after observing the President having a meeting with key agency and cabinet officials to talk about this issue.

The President were told that making remarks about 10 minutes in length but it is not a live feed so we`re expecting that tape. That will give us the newest indication of what the President`s concerns are, steps he`s prepared to take.

Earlier today, the Press Secretary Josh Earnest talked about the situation saying that the President who canceled political travel today, some fundraising in order to be here gives an indication of how they considered this an urgent matter, also talking about the potential for changes in protocols and at the same time still expressing confidence which is an important marker in terms of management in the head of the CDC.

We know of course the head of the CDC, Dr. Thomas Frieden has acknowledged that there have been some missteps and how this was initially handled. He suggested it might have been more prudent to send a team of experts on Ebola to the Dallas hospital right away.

And now we`re seeing some changes in protocols, lots of questions. The White House is still saying of course the likelihood of the spreading is still very, very remote and it is still very difficult to catch but at the same time, now that there are issues of transportation involved, more than one case in the United States that there are issues they need to consider and work out. So we expect to hear the President`s remarks at anytime now.

It is notable that the President canceled political travel today, Ed. We`re only three weeks away from the election. It`s a sign of how seriously they take this at a time when both the facts and the perceptions surrounding all these issues related to the outbreak of Ebola are a concern. Trying to ease people`s fears, provide them information and at the same time questions being raised about effective is the management on this.

And those are questions that are popping up because of concerns about the varying protocols or there are concerns or misunderstandings among the nurses who have contracted the illness. All those things need to play out and that`s what we expect to hear a bit more about from the President.

We know that he had a conference call with some world leaders earlier talking about the need for the international community to address this specially with respect to the Western Africa. The White House is also still saying they do not believe any kind of a travel ban to West Africa would be effective or appropriate at this time.

The reason they give they said that that would slow down relief efforts and attempts to try to bring aid to those in need there, where the outbreak is far more serious that what we`ve seen so far in the United States.

SCHULTZ: All right. Kelly O`Donnell at the White House tonight, I appreciate your time. Thank you so much for that reporting.

Let me bring in Dr. Peter Hotez who is the Founding Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr., good to have you with us again tonight.

The Nurses United...

DR. PETER HOTEZ, EBOLA EXPERT: Good to be here.

SCHULTZ: ... you bet. The nurses on the scene at the hospital on that conference call last night clearly explained that there has been a breach in protocol, certain measures weren`t followed and there was exposure that no one knew about until now. What`s your take on that?

HOTEZ: Well, I think we`re learning that we really cannot treat complicated Ebola patients at community hospitals and that we really need specialty hospitals for that purpose such as the three that we already have nationwide in Atlanta, in Nebraska and in Montana.

And if you think about it, that makes sense. We don`t treat complicated cancer patients at the community hospitals. We don`t do complicated heart surgery at community hospitals, why should Ebola be any different?

SCHULTZ: Well Dr., it would seem to me that someone in a position of authority now hearing the frontline defenders and the care providers right there come out and explain exactly what unfolded with Mr. Duncan who passed away a week ago.

That someone would say this can`t happen. And in some overwriting authority is going to have to come in here and make some changes. What changes have to be made?

You just mentioned about the community hospitals but what would be the overwriting authority and how would that all unfold?

HOTEZ: Well I think it`s worth taking a step back and really understanding a little more about this virus and who`s at risk and who`s not. I mean, remember that when you`re first infected with the Ebola virus, the amount of virus in your body is very low. And the risk of transmission from person to person in an airplane or other settings such as that is practically zero.

So, the first thing I want to do is put people at ease that they were not going to be seeing an Ebola outbreak anywhere between Dallas or Cleveland. The thing that happens about this virus, though, it has the unique ability to inactive our immune defense mechanism. It inactivates the protein known as interferon.

And that`s very important because what happens in the end-stages of disease, we get massive virus proliferation. So that in the end-stages of an illness you can have a patient of billions and billions of virus particles in their body and they`re destroying their liver and other organs.

So that`s why sometimes people were a bit confused. On the one hand, why we are saying it`s not very contagious on the other hand we have all these health care providers who maybe at risk of getting the infection and that`s because at the end-stages of this illness, it`s a very different type of disease and there is a lot of risk to health care providers and that`s why we have to do it in specialty hospitals.

SCHULTZ: If two have fallen ill, do you think that there will be others who are going to get sick?

HOTEZ: It`s possible. I`m hopeful that it won`t be given the incubation period of the virus and I was hopeful that Ms. Pham was going to be our last nurse infected. But we`ll have to see so that there could possibly be one or two more.

SCHULTZ: Now there -- as you mentioned there are four hospitals around the country with specialized biocontainment units for Ebola. Why do you think only the second nurse has been moved to Emory? Should there be more? Should there be more precautions taken?

And I guess I`m kind of troubled that if I were on that airplane and I found out that a provider, a health care provider who was in direct contact with Duncan that I was around, you know, I`d say, you know, I don`t feel real good about that. And I was feeling somebody is going to roll on that.

HOTEZ: Yeah, I mean and clearly -- Well clearly, this nurse should not have traveled. I don`t know what kind of miscommunication there was between the nurse and the hospital staff and others. That was clearly a bad move.

But, you know, I mean -- I guess we`re still in the early stages of really understanding what this virus is all about. And in some ways, I think an enormous amount has been learned over the last couple of weeks and we`re seeing new changes being implemented by the CDC.

I think in fairness to the CDC, what we have to say is why there may have been some -- a couple of missteps, there has not been any community transmission of the virus. Meaning, Mr. Duncan has not passed the virus on to others out in the community and that`s because of the good work of the CDC and state and local health agencies who have been able to identify contacts and isolate them which is just the opposite of the situation we would have in Liberia or Guinea or Sierra Leone.

Tim, good to have you on set with us here tonight. This health care provider went to your district. You must have questions tonight, what are they?

REP. TIM RYAN, (D) OHIO: Well, how do you get on an airplane? I mean, I think that`s the basic question. And if she was not supposed to get on an airplane and she was able to get on an airplane, what was their -- what was the mistake? And why aren`t these folks who should be isolated, why aren`t they flagged as a public health concern that they will not be able to get on the airplane in the future. And clearly there`s a hole there and I want to know how that`s happened.

SCHULTZ: Well this story continues to drip. For a week now we`ve been told that the country is going to have it under control but yet another piece of information comes out.

I think those nurses speaking because they were afraid they might get fired. That`s not a very good situation to be and that you`ve got a workplace of intimidation and you`ve got people`s lives on the lines and they are afraid to speak up.

So they have this conference call last night. They`re talking about exposure. So, who reels that in? Who`s the overwriting authority here? Who`s going to come in with the hammer?

RYAN: Well, I think it`s the doctor. A lot of people are starting to pay attention now and we`re seeing that the protocols and many of these hospitals aren`t what they need to be.

The preparedness is not I think what it needs to be. And I`ve talked to all the hospitals in Akron in my community. They`re getting ready. They are prepared. They know what they`re doing.

They`re playing offense on this and not waiting around which is really good news. We`ve got some great leaders in those hospitals.

But the reality of it is $200 million has been cut from Health and Human Services preparedness, we lost $10 million just in Ohio hospitals alone. And, not to mention the state in local cuts through the recession and budget cuts in certain states.

So, how can these hospitals can be prepared if they don`t have the resources? And so I think we need to get back to Congress. I think Congress should be called back in session.

We need an emergency spending bill. We`re spending $1 billion in Western African out through military, through the overseas contingency plan. Only $88 million was allocated for the CDC.

We need to get back to D.C. and we need to make sure that we`re get some new eyeballs on this to make sure that all the procedures are being followed and the resources are there. You don`t want to come back later and say, "Geez, we didn`t have enough money" or "We didn`t make enough investments" to track down everybody that was on that airplane. Or any further extensive contact tracking.

You need personnel. You need people.

SCHULTZ: Should there be strict oversight of these hospitals that are dealing with this in handling Ebola? I mean, clearly the nurses are saying that there are some issues when it comes to education, preparedness, funding, all of these things and exposure.

So what`s the oversight here? Some hospital administrator who wants to make a dollar?

RYAN: Well I think it should be immediate CDC comes in and make sure that there`s a reeducation, that certain protocols are followed. I mean, the idea is you got to catch it right where it is.

And everything that I`ve read about this is you got to, you know, you got to get it right now and not wait around. And so the CDC should -- and they should have the personnel to be able to go in and do that. And I`m not sure exactly what`s happened down in Texas.

The full story will probably continue to reveal itself.

SCHULTZ: Your thoughts on a travel ban.

RYAN: You know, I don`t know if we`re there yet but I do think if we need to have certain protocols in place in Western Africa to make sure that they`re screening in place. You know, that may be something that we need to look at.

But I think we need to get back to D.C. so that members of Congress are educated about what all of our options are. And hearing it from the CDC, hearing it from the administration, hearing it from the public health experts as to what the decisions we should be making are.

SCHULTZ: It`s clear now that the hospital in Dallas was doing things that the CDC did know about.

RYAN: Right.

SCHULTZ: I mean that should be one hell of a concern, shouldn`t it?

RYAN: Yeah. It`s a big concern.

SCHULTZ: I mean, so we`re taking the hospitals word for it that, you know, they`re on par, they`re on top of this. Oh by the way, some of their people are traveling. One of their personnel was traveling and who knows how many people those other 75 people have been exposed to.

RYAN: Yeah. And I don`t think there is many hospitals in our country given all the budget cuts, given that the cuts that I mentioned in other state and local cuts to public health that can possibly be prepared for an Ebola outbreak or an Ebola patient. There`s not many that can be there.

So, immediately the Center for Disease Control should go in and not to takeover the hospital but certainly manage and make sure that the workforce there is prepared and trained in following the proper procedures and protocols.

SCHULTZ: OK. Congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio, good to have you with us tonight.

And of course President Obama spoke with reporters moments ago and we will get that tape to you here before we get off the air. As soon as we can, we`ll get it to you.

Coming up, Americans vote against their own best interest.

I spoke to the folks of Newton, Iowa. Rather interesting.

Plus, Republicans continued to fight for income inequality. Keep it here. We`ll be right back.

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SCHULTZ: Welcome back to the Ed Show. What`s hot? What`s not? It`s all about what`s going on in Trenders. In our social media, you can join our team Ed Show, ed.msnbc.com, Twitter.com/edshow and facebook.com/edshow.

And my podcast, want to tell you it`s going to be hard ball politics between now and the election. And you can get that podcast at wegoted.com, rawstory.com, ringoffireradio.com and on iTunes.

Ed Show social media nation has decided. We`re reporting. Here are today`s top Trenders voted on by you.

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It`s been five years since balloon boy became a national spectacle.

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SCHULTZ: Mitch McConnell`s Obamacare bashing does not commute.

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SCHULTZ: We`ll have more on what are Republican in Congress would mean for the United States economy in just a moment. But first, a volatile global economy is taking its hold here at home. The markets saw their worst intraday loses since September of 2011.

The Dow ended the day down 173 points after dropping as much as 460 points during trading hours. The S&P was down almost 3 percent during trading, but end of the day, off less than one percent. In the NASDAQ dipped into correction territory during the afternoon after dropping more than 100 points but, end of the day, off 11 points.

Larry Kudlow joins us tonight, Senior Contributor CNBC. Did we dodge a big one today or what?

KUDLOW: You know, I think there`s a bunch of things but the biggest thing I keep hearing is growth. People are very worried that the world economy is going down the tubes. They`re starting in Europe and then they come to the U.S. and they wind up in Japan and China.

I don`t happen to believe that, I acknowledge the world economy is low. I actually I think the USA is better, believe it or not. Europe is worst however. My view, take it for what`s it`s worth...

SCHULTZ: Sure.

KUDLOW: Sometimes I get it right sometimes I get it wrong. I would buy this correction. I would absolutely add to my 401K -- I don`t see any recession, I don`t see any insulation, I see profits rising. And I think lower oil prices and gasoline prices are unambiguously great for both consumers and business.

SCHULTZ: Who else is going to put more disposable income in people`s pockets?

KUDLOW: It`s...

SCHULTZ: There`s no doubt about that. Anybody will take a good gas price, but we`re of course using less gas. We have...

KUDLOW: We are.

SCHULTZ: ... since 2007 and 2013.

KUDLOW: You got it. You got the fracking revolution which is putting all this gas on the market, OK? Oil and gas.

Secondly, you have some much lower consumption. You`re exactly right. I thought the price would break last spring. I`m amazed it waited this long.

SCHULTZ: So, let me guess were Larry Kudlow is on this. Profits for corporations are going to continue.

KUDLOW: Yup.

SCHULTZ: Interest rates, they`re not going to do anything, they`re going to be about where they are right now.

KUDLOW: They`ll go up.

SCHULTZ: And the market`s going to stay pretty stable. And energy prices that -- which are down right now are going to help this fourth quarter.

KUDLOW: I agree. I think -- I actually think politics decide...

SCHULTZ: How can you be right on so much stuff and then be wrong on so much stuff when it comes to these hard workers out there?

KUDLOW: I`m a hard worker. I want to see the hard worker get jobs.

SCHULTZ: Yeah.

KUDLOW: I think the economy is moving up a little bit, you know, even running at 2 percent for five years, OK. It`s not a good recovery. Look, evidence shows it maybe moving into two half to three, next couple quarters could be in the 3 percent zone. Look at man, I think it`s good for America.

SCHULTZ: Why is the Republican Party better suited to create jobs than the Democrats or does it matter?

KUDLOW: Well look, I think it can matter. I mean, I`m writing a book about JFK by the way and its tax cuts which gave America one of the greatest economic booms in history. So, it could be bipartisan. But, it`s not today.

And I will say this Ed, you may disagree. To me, the two biggest things we should be doing right now. Number one, we should pass the Keystone Pipeline and get that whole momentum going again create literally 100 of 1000 of blue collar jobs.

Second, I want to corporate tax cut. I want corporate tax cut. And I will argue that the people who would benefit the most from a corporate tax cut are not rich people. They are actually wage earners. Middle class wage earners will benefit the most from a corporate tax.

SCHULTZ: Now, I want to be this interview to be testimony about how I can keep my cool. The Keystone XL Pipeline will not create a 100 of 1000 of jobs. I was there in there middle to country, those are temporary jobs maybe 30,000 in construction that would be less than 18 months and about 40 full-time jobs at the end of the day.

KUDLOW: But secondary enter share, you got a lot of services, you got a lot of transportation. I bet the pipeline itself is probably about 50,000 jobs.

SCHULTZ: Not true.]KUDLOW: But when you calculate that out over a period of time, you`re going to get a lot of job. Look, the thing is, we have a lot of pipelines in this country.

SCHULTZ: We do.

KUDLOW: OK. They`re pretty good, they`re a lot safer than rails, they`re a lot of safer that trucking. The President himself has flirted with the Keystone. I guess he doesn`t want to do it before the election. Send the signal, energy has become our greatest industry. Send the signal and if you want to talk infrastructure, we need pipeline infrastructure to get all that stuff from North Dakota and so forth, get it to the East Coast, get it to the refineries. So, gasoline prices can come down.

SCHULTZ: Pipelines leak, putting it over the aquifer is a big, big risk. And there`s other ways, a diversified way to move this oil and yet we don`t needed because it`s the worst oil in the world this Tar Sands stuff.

KUDLOW: But, but, but, but the infrastructure I`m talking about will get the ultra light oil from the Dakotas to the rest of the country.

SCHULTZ: That`s already being done by rail.

KUDLOW: Not enough and it`s dangerous.

SCHULTZ: Well, Dakota`s not complaining about it. He knows Burlington Northern. He`s really moving that oil and the farmers are mad because they can`t get grain on there.

KUDLOW: You`re right. But I will say this, it`s a lot safer to do it by pipeline. It`s a lot safer. So, if you`re worried about that, you should be really in favor. Look, we are -- Obama had said, we have lots of pipeline.

SCHULTZ: And do have a lot of pipelines.

KUDLOW: He`s not against that.

SCHULTZ: But we don`t have it going over the all Ogallala aquifer. And that`s -- This is away too much of a risk.

KUDLOW: But they`ve got -- they`ve gone around that.

SCHULTZ: No, they haven`t. They haven`t got it. They...

KUDLOW: This is the Nebraska thing you`re talking about.

SCHULTZ: That`s right. They don`t even have it -- that`s not permitted properly in South Dakota, that ran out. It`s not permitted and it`s a constitutional issue for eminent domain in Nebraska right now, big issue there can have the government or anybody come along to say, "Hey, I think I`m going to put a pipeline over your land."

The risk is too great. There`s -- And plus the oil is dirty as hell. I mean there`s no reason for us to do it. Look at gas price is right now. We`re pump in more oil right now that we ever have out of Dakotas. So, why take Canadian oil across our soil and have that risk when it doesn`t affect our market at all, Larry?

KUDLOW: The Canadians -- that oil is going to be pumped no matter what you do. So, there is...

SCHULTZ: I don`t think so. Wait, wait.

KUDLOW: Sure, they`re going to pump. They`re going to pump west to China or the latest one after listened to the Harper government in Canada, they`re going to go east. Now, that`s an interesting thing because and this is my biggest pointer, second biggest point.

I want to get our oil all this fracking oil to Europe. When you get into Europe you are undermining Vladimir Putin and his creep-do (ph) empire.

SCHULTZ: Well, the fact that we`re using less is hurting the exporting of oil right now. We`re hurting Putin right now because we`re using less oil that we ever had.

KUDLOW: I agree with that.

SCHULTZ: Wind, solar, battery, all that stuff is where we have to go as a country and that`s where the jobs are and that`s where we have to invest.

KUDLOW: It`s only two percent.

SCHULTZ: You`re coming back.

KUDLOW: I know you...

SCHULTZ: I got to run here...

KUDLOW: It`s only 2 or 3 percent.

SCHULTZ: Larry Kudlow, good to have you with us tonight. Thanks so much.

SCHULTZ: Welcome back to the Ed Show. You were looking at live pictures of the second Ebola patient being transferred for care to Emory University in Atlanta. This is Love Field in Dallas. We are also awaiting President Obama`s remarks on the Ebola crisis.

We`ll bring that to you as soon as we get it moments to come. Stay with us, we`ll be right back.

Stocks skid on worries about the economy and Ebola after a second case is confirmed in Texas.

The Dow rebounds from a stunning 464 drop to close down by just at 173 points. The S&P lower about 15. The NASDAQ shedding 11 points.

Netflix is out with better than expected earnings. However, subscriber growth disappointed. The stock is down over $100 or more than 20 percent in after-hours trading.

And eBay shares are so lower after its quarterly revenue fell short of investment.

That`s it from CNBC, first in business worldwide.

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SCHULTZ: Welcome back to the Ed Show. The Senate race in Iowa is closer than ever. The latest Quinnipiac Poll has Democrat Congressman Bruce Braley trailing Tea Party-er Joni Ernst by just two points just three weeks out from Election Day. Ernst in support of the Koch Brothers and does not believe in a federal minimum wage.

She has said she`s opposed to the tax credits which have provided thousands of green energy jobs to Iowa workers. Ernst wants to get rid of the environmental production agency, Ernst who highlights her roots as a farmer`s daughter said that she would have voted against the Farm Bill`s Clean Water Act.

It raises questions. What motivates people to vote against their own self-interest? I went to Newton, Iowa last week and talked to folks about why they were siding with Ernst.

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So, you say, you voted, who`d you vote for?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I voted the Republican Party this time.

SCHULTZ: OK, and this time, you voted for Democrats in the past?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have.

SCHULTZ: What push you to the Republicans in the middle country this time?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, because -- Harry Reid is the guy I just like the most.

SCHULTZ: What do you think of all the filibusters that the Republicans have had in the Senate? And when you hear the word obstruction, what`s your response to that?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don`t know, it can be kind of a waste time and money. And I`m not sure where...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What filibusters are you talking about?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The one...

SCHULTZ: Well, there`s a record number of filibusters, in other words, the Senate has been stopped by the minority party on everything that they have tried to pass, a record number of filibusters.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That`s the problem then. They don`t vote on anything. Its Harry Reid does not let it come to the floor. So, they`ve never passed the budget in what? In five years in the Senate? Now, how can you do that? How can you run the government without budget?

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SCHULTZ: Joining me tonight on a rapid response panel Brad Woodhouse from the Democratic Party Communications Director and Harold Cook Democratic Strategist from Texas. Gentlemen, good to have you with us tonight.

SCHULTZ: It`s tough to go to the middle of the country sometimes and listen to people who simply don`t know what the hell is going on. Where -- Brad, where`s the disconnect here when it comes to issues that are vital to people`s lives and yet they vote against their own best interest. Your take on this?

WOODHOUSE: Well, I mean look Ed, I think it`s often a head scratcher, I mean I take the issue of seniors, I mean, so many seniors will vote with Republicans who wanted to voucherize their Medicare, privatize or eliminate their Social Security. The seniors went out to this kind of Koch brothers in insurance industry, rallies against the Affordable Care Act saying, you know, hands off my health care when they`re on Medicare.

So I think, part of the problem is the polarization, part of it is, you know, people only get their information from certain sources either the media...

SCHULTZ: Yeah.

WOODHOUSE: ... or on the internet. And it`s really hard, it`s hard to breakthrough but, you know, that`s why we got to keep plugging away. That`s what Bruce Braley is plugging away and I want to think that`s why he`s making progress in the recent polls.

SCHULTZ: You know, in politics certain issues and people get targeted. Harry Reid has been targeted, Harold Cook, break it down for us. It reached one couple.

COOK: Yeah. You know, I think it general there are sometimes three things going on when people seem to vote against their self-interest. Thing number one, I think Republicans are frankly better than Democrats sometimes at stating over that 30,000 foot kind of value statement level when a lot of voters wouldn`t even be aware that they`re stabbing themselves in the back.

The good example, it`s not a rare Republican. They`ll walk around and say, "Oh, I`m in favor of the free market to grow the economy." Well, that`s the same, it doesn`t sound half bad to some people even minimum wage workers, but they may be unaware what that probably means is that that candidate will not be supporting worker protections in case you get hurdled or killed on the job and probably will not be supporting a raise in the minimum wage and may not believe in the minimum wage at all.

That`s thing number one. Thing number two, I`ve seen it here a lot in Texas, Republicans hate to say it. They`ll just lie. We`ve got Republican candidates who run on all over the State of Texas right now, convincing voters that public education is their highest priority. These are the same Republicans who voted on the state legislature to cut $5.5 billion from the education.

SCHULTZ: Yeah.

COOK: And they crowded classrooms and they`ve laid off teachers. So I mean, they will just lie but then, we ought to be very careful about talking to this and we don`t disrespect voters because a lot of times, what we believe should be, you know, logically, you know, voters best self-interest is not what the voter himself believes is in his best interest. They maybe distracted by a lot of things and the Republicans have been very good at it, especially when it comes to their partnership with religious rights.

SCHULTZ: Brad, what else in this minimum wage an issue that`s going to drive people?

WOODHOUSE: Well, I do. Look, I think it`s a help in Iowa to a great extent. And I think it`s not just the minimum wage. It`s really -- It`s the issues around...

SCHULTZ: Yeah.

WOODHOUSE: ... the minimum wage.

SCHULTZ: Gentleman, I got to interrupt you. We`ve just got this President Obama tape in speaking with full reporters at the White House about Ebola. Here it is.

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OBAMA: ... the second health care worker in Dallas with Ebola and in light of this second case, I thought it was very important for me to bring together our team including our CDC Director Tom Frieden to hear directly from them in terms of how we are wrapping up our efforts here.

Obviously, initially, we want to express concern for the two health workers who`ve been affected, you know, our nurses and our health care workers are absolutely vital to the health and well-being of our families. They sacrifice for us all the time not just in this case but in the case of other illnesses that affect us.

They are selfless. They work hard. They`re often underpaid and so our thoughts and prayers are with them and we have to make sure that we are doing everything we can to take care of them even as they take care of us.

As a consequence, what we`ve been doing here today is reviewing exactly what we know about what`s happened in Dallas and how we`re going to make sure that something like this is not repeated and that we are monitoring, supervising, overseeing in a much more aggressive way exactly what`s taken place in Dallas initially and making sure that the lessons learned are then transmitted to hospitals and clinics all across the country.

First of all, what I`ve directed the CDC to do is that as soon as somebody is diagnosed with Ebola, we want a rapid response team, a SWAT team essentially from the CDC to be on the ground as quickly as possible, hopefully within 24 hours so that they are taking the local hospitals step by step through exactly what needs to be done and making sure that all the protocols are properly observed, that the use of protective equipment is done effectively, the disposal of the protective equipment is done properly.

The key thing to understand about this disease is that these protocols work. We know that because they`ve been used for decades now, in Ebola cases around the world, including the cases that were treated in Emory and in Nebraska. So, if they`re done properly, they work. But we have to make sure that understandably, certain local hospitals that may not have that experience are walking -- walk through that process as carefully as possible and we`re going to make sure that this rapid response team can do that.

In addition, we are reviewing every step of what`s happened since Mr. Duncan was initially brought into the hospital in Dallas so that we understand exactly where some of the problems may have occurred and doing a thorough canvas and inventory of all the workers who had contact with Mr. Duncan including those who engaged in some of the testing that took place.

We are now communicating all these various lessons to hospitals, clinics, first responders around the country and obviously given all the attention that this is received. We`re going to make sure that that provision of information is constant, ongoing and being updated on a real-time basis.

In addition, we are working very carefully with the mayor of Dallas, the governor of Texas and others to make sure that in the event, any other cases arrives from these health workers that they are properly cared for in a way that is consistent with public safety.

I know that people are concerned about the fact that the second health care worker had traveled.

Here`s what we know about Ebola that it is not like the flu, it is not airborne. The only way that a person can contract Ebola is by coming into direct contact with the bodily fluids of somebody who is showing symptoms, in other words, if they don`t have symptoms, they`re not contagious.

What we are able to do however is to do what`s called contact tracing so that anybody who may have had contact with someone even who is incidental contact, even if they weren`t showing symptoms, being able to identify who those individuals are and make sure that they are then being monitored, in a way that allows us to make certain that the disease does not spread further. And that`s currently taking place in a very aggressive process conducted by the CDC, HHS and the rest of our teams.

I want to use myself as an example just so the people have a sense of the science here. I shook hands with, hugged and kissed, not the doctors but couple of the nurses in Emory because of the valiant work that they did in treating one of the patients. They followed the protocols. They knew what they were doing and I felt perfectly safe of doing so. And so, this is not a situation in which like a flu, the risk of a rapid spread of the disease are eminent.

If we do these protocols properly, if we follow the steps, if we get the information out then the likelihood of widespread Ebola outbreaks in this country are very, very low. But, I think what we`ve all learned over the last several weeks is that folks here in this county and a lot of nonspecialized hospitals and clinics don`t have that much experience dealing with these issues and so we`re going to have to push out this information as aggressively as possible and that`s the instructions that I provided to my team.

Just couple other points, you know, we are going to be monitoring carefully the health status of the other health care workers in Dallas and obviously they`re concerned. We understand that many of them are scared and we are going to make sure that we`re on the ground 24/7 to provide them the kind of support, information and assurance that they need to get through this particular challenge.

And finally, we`re also going to be continuing examining our screening processes in airports. We`re making sure that in the event that we additional cases that involved the need for transporting those patients to specialized hospitals that those teams are in place and those facilities are in place.

And, you know, we will make sure that on a day to day basis, we provide the public with all the information they need and any updates about what is happening not just in Dallas but what is being done across the country.

I`ll end with this point.

We are going to have to make sure that we do not lose sight of the importance of the international response to what is taking place and what`s happened.

I am absolutely confident that we can prevent a serious outbreak of the disease here in the United States. But, it becomes more difficult to do so if this epidemic of Ebola rages out of control in West Africa. If it does, then it will spread globally in an age of frequent travel and, you know, the kind of constant interactions that people have across the borders. And so, it is very important for us to understand that the investment we make in helping Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea deal with this problem is an investment in our own public health.

This is not simply charity although, obviously it`s important that America takes the lead on the humanitarian crisis that`s taking place there but it is also probably the single most important thing that we can do to prevent a more serious Ebola outbreak in this country is making sure that we get what is a raging epidemic right now in West Africa, under control. So for that reason, last night, I had a call with Prime Minister Abe of Japan to solicit greater support for the international effort.

This morning, I spoke with Chancellor Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Renzi of Italy, President Hollande of France as well as David Cameron, the Prime Minister of Great Britain to make sure that we are coordinating our efforts and that we are putting in a lot more resources then. So far at least the international community has put into this process.

So bottom line, in terms of the public, I want people to understand that the dangers of you contracting Ebola, the dangerous of a serious outbreak are extraordinarily low but we are taking this very seriously at the highest levels of the government. And we are going to be able to manage this particular situation but we have to look towards the future and if we are not responding internationally in an effective way, and if we do not set up the kind of preparedness and training in our public health infrastructure here in the United States, not just for this outbreak but for future outbreaks then we could have problems.

So, in the meantime, I want everybody to be thinking about and praying for the two health workers that have gotten sick. Those who also treated this patient with compassion and care, we just want to say thank you to them and, you know, we are going to be doing everything we can to make sure that they are properly cared for.

OK. Thank you very much everybody.

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SCHULTZ: The President within the last half hour at the White House briefing pool reporters on exactly what America`s game plan will be in dealing with Ebola. Clearly, the President is trying to reduce the fears of the American people here, talking about his personal contact and experience that he had with the health care providers at Emory University. West Africa`s problem is our problem, that`s pretty much what the President is saying.

I`m joined tonight by NBC News correspondent Kelly O`Donnell at the White House. Kelly, a very serious situation. They`re not taking it lightly.

The game plan, interesting, the SWAT team. Where did that come from? Was that the White House`s idea or is that coming from health care providers and professionals suggesting that?

O`DONNELL: Well, we don`t know the exact origination of that idea but it`s certainly is something that is relatable to the public. We all have kind of a mental image of what that means.

And the President was both trying to be reassuring and yet, raising a significant amount of caution about the needs that are real and the dangers of the Ebola virus. At the same time, really trying to hammer home the idea that contracting it is rare and the incidents of that is low even though many people are afraid.

So the notion of a CDC rapid response team which is something that in effect, Doctor Frieden, the head of the CDC acknowledges that that probably should`ve been done to sending experts to Dallas shortly after that first case of Thomas Eric Duncan who had traveled from West Africa to the United States then the first nurse, and now, a second nurse.

The idea that you`ve got to bring in experts who have the equipment and really the understanding of all of the circumstances while health care professionals deal with ill patients all of the time. This level of protection is not something that they do day in, day out. The President acknowledged that, while also reminding everyone to have some compassion for the nurses who have contracted this illness, they were on the frontline, so to speak, dealing with that first patient who has now passed away at a point when he was extremely ill.

And so, we don`t have a sense of what their experience was like in terms of their work day there and we`ve heard from nurses and nurses representatives in terms of unions raising concerns about is there enough information. So the President is laying out a change and how things will be done, raising concerns about the need for the international community to get involved.

And at the same time, he putted in personal terms that we don`t often see from this President or any president when it comes to a crisis like that, even the anecdote Ed, about hugging some of the staffers and touching some of the staffers at Emory where they have been dealing with these issues to make the point that this is not something that is easily transmitted.

He also acknowledged some of the concerns about travel now that we know the second patient who is in now in Atlanta, traveled by air and that raises other questions.

So the cabinet meeting went on for a considerable amount of time, trying to address what has happened so far, change that need to be made. And again, making that bigger international plea to try contain the virus where it has been mostly lethal in West Africa. Ed?

SCHULTZ: And of course, the President reintegrating that the protocols work and making sure that the American people know that if these protocols are followed that we are going to be able to contain this and meet the seriousness of this disease in America even though there`s no vaccine for it.

Interesting how they have want to I.D. the problems, they wanted to have communication and use as much technology in communication as they can with the different medical teams. And of course, also do the tracing of contact.

Now, today, Amber Vinson traveled on Frontier Airlines and that airplane has been cleaned and I understand Kelly, its back in the service tonight. There you a picture of Amber Vinson. She`s been transferred to Emory University tonight.

But the President made very clear and it seemed like his mission here Kelly, was to reduce the fears of the American people that we`re going to get through this but also, really stating that West Africa is where we really have to put resources if we`re going to stop this or it will spiral out of control. Where does Congress come in on that role as you see it?

O`DONNELL: Well, it will be important tomorrow, Ed. We will hear from some of the officials including the head of the Centers for Disease Control at a hearing. We know Congress is not in session right now but the Key House Committee will be back in town to address some of these concerns. There have been differing responses, some members of Congress are saying -- in both parties, are saying in both parties, are saying a travel ban is necessary to try to blunt the spread of the illness.

There are others who say, that is not the right solution and in fact, would make things worst in West Africa, there will be debates about how much money and resources need to be pushed to this. So there are some political dimensions to this as well Ed, that hearing tomorrow will be in other way, we`ll see that play out.

SCHULTZ: And of course, the President talked about more screening at airports and the efficiency of that, monitoring the workers. President Obama`s speaking with no notes, it seems like he has a pretty good handle on all of this at this point, spending the day, canceling a fundraising trip today and making sure that everything is going to be put in place so America can fight this.

He says we need to learn from all of the lessons and all of the mistakes that have been made so far. The SWAT team, this rapid response team, as the President called it, is something that is going to be used if there are anymore cases that are reported of Ebola. But it`s very clear that the President using his cabinet to fullest extent and the CDC to get ahead of this and admitting that there have been some mistakes made.

Kelly O`Donnell at the White House, I appreciate your time tonight. Thank you so much.

We will continue to follow this here on MSNBC, that tape ran about 10 minutes, the President laying out the game plan for exactly what we`re going to do as a country and we`ll have more coverage with all of our shows coming up here on MSNBC tonight.

That`s the Ed Show. I`m Ed Schultz.

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